Aquatic Plants With Anti-Inflammatory And Anti-Oxidant Activities

Abstract

Nature has rewarded the human beings with uncountable nutritious and medicinal plants. These medicinal plants are a nature’s gift to us so that we can live a healthy and disease free life. Aquatic plants are those natural herbs that usually grow in or near water/aquatic environment and are considered as one of the most ancient source of food and medicine used by the human beings. These aquatic plants are unique in their nutritional composition and therapeutic potential and are widely used in traditional medicinal system in treatment of different unhealthy conditions. This review is designed to discuss some aquatic plants with established anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory activities along with their possible mechanism of action and part responsible to possess this action. The recently updated information was collected from scientific journals, books, and globally accepted scientific databases via a library and electronic search such as PubMed, Elsevier, Google Scholar, Springer, Scopus, Web of Science, Wiley online library. All of the full-text articles and abstracts were screened. The most important and relevant articles were carefully chosen for study in this review. This review will help the researchers, traditional medical practitioners and marine pharmacologists to explore these aquatic plants in future to evaluate their true role and efficacy in acute and chronic inflammatory conditions.